Sword of the New World went on a 24-hours maintenance for hardware upgrade... and it has been almost 36 hours since the servers went down. Even the forums are down with "IPS Driver Error", which is kind of a smart move, since nobody can QQ about it this way.

So instead, I login to sGE and tried to do the quest to seal Novia. After a few failures due to inability to use buff potions (double-clicking on them just refused to work due to lag or whatever), Alicia (veteran f/ele) finally managed to spam lightning skill on Novia enough to force her retreat with 9.04 minutes left. See also Seal of Novia.